This is a safety issue, nothing more, nothing less. The child must be seat-belted in not just for his safety alone. In an abrupt stop on the ground or in turbulence or avoidance maneuvering in the air an unbelted child becomes a projectile and can damage the airplane and other passengers. The parents exhibited complete disregard for the safety of their child and the safety of those passengers around them. When you interfere with a flight crew's performance of their duty, the usual result is jail. This couple should consider themselves luck, for the moment.

You and women have the same rights. You are confusing rights with treatment. For far too many years, you, and your ilk, treated blacks, women, hispanics and other minorities, so poorly that the courts had to step in and protect them from ogres and other beasts. You said "If I do something inappropriate..." Why the hell would you say something inappropriate? It's NOT appropriate, that means, if you say it, you are going to get disciplined. Control yourself, man, and your life will improve.

The Republicans have done a very good job of deserving that moniker. There is nothing phony about what has been going on around the country with the piling on of "requirements" before a woman can have an abortion.Your argument is syllogistic.

The dictionary uses the phrase "Often offensive" when defining "Lady." Though this is probably treading onto the realm of the politically correct, I would expect that a lecture from a woman about women's issues to use language elevated above the vernacular, but that isn't the real issue, just an aside. Most importantly, I find it incongruous that an expository brief on "women's issues" from a conservative, religious think tank would find any traction other than those with a predilection toward chauvinism.

An interesting editorial for me on several levels. Having flown the predecessor to the P8A in my Navy days (The P3 - Orion) I can testify to the fact that electric submarines, running on their batteries, are very hard to find because they are so quiet. Having flown the airline version of the P8A (the Boeing 737-800), I can also say that it will provide a great platform for the instruments needed to detect and track submarines. That having been said, the submarine photo included in the editorial, a Trident submarine, will probably never use that sonar. With the exception of the four Ohio class submarines outfitted with Tomahawk and Harpoon cruise missile, the submarines carrying the Trident are strategic weapons. Their mission, when on patrol, is to remain hidden, until ordered to launch up to 24 Trident missiles each with up to 8 nuclear warheads. Except in extremis, they do nothing to give away their position and a sonar ping lets the whole ocean know where they are.
The Navy (and, I suspect, all of the services) spend a great deal of time training. That training is what turns a bunch of ordinary people into a crew. It is what hones the skills and equipment to highest levels, and is a necessary fact of military life. Technology and training are what makes our military so much better at waging war than any other military in the world. You can debate the war, but not the need to train. Under pressure from the citizens and their politicians, the Navy will adjust their training needs to fit the requirements for the safety of marine mammals. We only have to keep the pressure on to make sure it happens.

Archimedes famously said, "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth." He didn't mean that he would literally move the earth, but would, using a lever and a proper fulcrum, apply enough force, magnified at the end of the lever, to affect the change. This is the same idea in climate change. Humans can't directly heat things up on their own, they need a wedge, a lever. Carbon dioxide is that force magnifier, where an increase of a few parts per million has a magnifying effect. Mankind is, generally, shortsighted because of our short lifetimes on a geological scale. We don't directly see a cause an effect because that effect is so small that it must be measured precisely and observed over a reasonably long period of time. WHen that is done (as it has been) there is no denying that climate change is happening and we are the cause. That won't matter to the luddites here, they'll be dead before the sharks can swim up and bite them on the a$$...

I made that commitment about four decades ago when I signed up to fly a Navy aircraft that was nuclear capable. I was at the president's disposal then, and, were I in his position now, would do the same. The concept of nuclear deterrence requires it.

Le_B: That may be so, there are too many religions for me to answer for them all. The point here is that Santorum wears his Catholicism on his sleeve while campaigning, so it is a valid question to ask of him.

bobzybach:
"Like most other PhD's I know and regularly communicate with, the jury is still out on whether people are affecting the weather by using fossil fuels."

Well, that's not empirical, it's not evidential. What it is is hearsay. The evidence for human caused global warming is stunning and not ignorable, but rather than me waste my time I'll let an editorial from the Washington Post say it:

Broadly speaking, here are two reasons why the Earth could be warming up. Either more heat is reaching the Earth’s surface, or else less heat is escaping out into space. On the first, there’s no evidence of a significant increase in heat reaching the earth. True, solar activity can shift from year to year. But satellite data shows that total solar irradiance has declined slightly in the past 30 years, even as the planet continues to warm. Scratch that theory.

So something’s keeping the heat in. Physicists have long known from lab experiments that greenhouse gases like carbon-dioxide can absorb certain frequencies of infrared radiation and scatter them back toward the Earth. We also know these gases are increasing in the atmosphere, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels (checking this involves some fairly straightforward chemistry). And, indeed, satellite data has shown that less and less infrared in the specific frequencies in question is escaping out into space, while more is bouncing back to the Earth’s surface. There’s your culprit.